Chris Early, vice president of digital publishing, Ubisoft

Chris joined Ubisoft's San Francisco office in 2010 as vice president of digital publishing. Chris is spearheading Ubisoft's digital publishing initiatives, where he oversees online game operations in the Americas, E-Commerce, CRM and third party online development for Ubisoft.

Chris was most recently the general manager for Windows Gaming Technology at Microsoft and development efforts designed to extend game experiences across multiple platforms and grow Microsoft's casual and core gaming audiences.

Prior to this, Chris was studio manager for Microsoft Casual Games, overseeing the development of Xbox Live Arcade, the operation of MSN Games and Windows Live Messenger Games, and the internal casual game production studio, Carbonated Games. Before joining Microsoft, Chris served as president and chief operating officer of GameSpy and executive vice president and general manager of Mplayer.

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